So I started out this morning intending on riding with a few of my friends, that changed with one pull of the pull cord. Snap. A few hours later I decided to head out for a quick ride. I headed towards Lyndonville on 52. I come around a corner, and there they are. People, sleds, parts in the trail. I don't think I've come across something like this in 9 years of riding. I jump off and see what's going on. A woman tells me someone took off to try and get cell signal to call for help. 2 sleds had collided.
I walk up there and get that sinking feeling in my stomach when I see an older woman on the ground not moving too much and a young girl on the ground sobbing. I have a good cell phone so I call 911. I meet the troopers and the EMTs on the road about 1/2 mile in the trail. They give me one of their first aid bags and I run it up to the scene. Then I zip back and pickup the EMT and run him up to the scene. After that a bunch more people got some more EMTs and a few (what I think to be) firemen/EMTs come on their own sleds. These are all the Lyndon Rescue and Wheelock Sheffield folks. What an F'n crew of people. Hats off to them.
Anyway, I got the story from the guy involved in the accident. They met at a curve where there is a little jog into the trail due to a tree. They slammed on the side and the woman and her daughter were ejected from the sled. The guy said the girl passenger flew off and hit him cross body breaking his helmet.
Basically everyone was conscious when I left. They thought the guy either had bruised or broken ribs, he was having trouble breathing. The young girl might have had a broken leg, and the woman might have had some head trauma. She was not conscious at the very beginning. They were waiting for the rescude sled since the woman and her daughter had to be body boarded out.
I rode after that for 80 miles, taking each turn very carefully. I figured it would be a high traffic weekend, probably the best of the year.
People need to remember to get home safe first. Don’t speed, don’t try to be a hot dog, don’t cut or go wide on corners. Just make sure you will go home safe. That’s the bottom line.
Full Version: Sobering Reminder, This is a dangerous sport folks...
1madcat
Where on 52?
Where on 52?
QUOTE(1madcat @ Feb 16 2008, 07:16 PM) 
So I started out this morning intending on riding with a few of my friends, that changed with one pull of the pull cord. Snap. A few hours later I decided to head out for a quick ride. I headed towards Lyndonville on 52. I come around a corner, and there they are. People, sleds, parts in the trail. I don't think I've come across something like this in 9 years of riding. I jump off and see what's going on. A woman tells me someone took off to try and get cell signal to call for help. 2 sleds had collided.
I walk up there and get that sinking feeling in my stomach when I see an older woman on the ground not moving too much and a young girl on the ground sobbing. I have a good cell phone so I call 911. I meet the troopers and the EMTs on the road about 1/2 mile in the trail. They give me one of their first aid bags and I run it up to the scene. Then I zip back and pickup the EMT and run him up to the scene. After that a bunch more people got some more EMTs and a few (what I think to be) firemen/EMTs come on their own sleds. These are all the Lyndon Rescue and Wheelock Sheffield folks. What an F'n crew of people. Hats off to them.
Anyway, I got the story from the guy involved in the accident. They met at a curve where there is a little jog into the trail due to a tree. They slammed on the side and the woman and her daughter were ejected from the sled. The guy said the girl passenger flew off and hit him cross body breaking his helmet.
Basically everyone was conscious when I left. They thought the guy either had bruised or broken ribs, he was having trouble breathing. The young girl might have had a broken leg, and the woman might have had some head trauma. She was not conscious at the very beginning. They were waiting for the rescude sled since the woman and her daughter had to be body boarded out.
I rode after that for 80 miles, taking each turn very carefully. I figured it would be a high traffic weekend, probably the best of the year.
People need to remember to get home safe first. Don’t speed, don’t try to be a hot dog, don’t cut or go wide on corners. Just make sure you will go home safe. That’s the bottom line.
I walk up there and get that sinking feeling in my stomach when I see an older woman on the ground not moving too much and a young girl on the ground sobbing. I have a good cell phone so I call 911. I meet the troopers and the EMTs on the road about 1/2 mile in the trail. They give me one of their first aid bags and I run it up to the scene. Then I zip back and pickup the EMT and run him up to the scene. After that a bunch more people got some more EMTs and a few (what I think to be) firemen/EMTs come on their own sleds. These are all the Lyndon Rescue and Wheelock Sheffield folks. What an F'n crew of people. Hats off to them.
Anyway, I got the story from the guy involved in the accident. They met at a curve where there is a little jog into the trail due to a tree. They slammed on the side and the woman and her daughter were ejected from the sled. The guy said the girl passenger flew off and hit him cross body breaking his helmet.
Basically everyone was conscious when I left. They thought the guy either had bruised or broken ribs, he was having trouble breathing. The young girl might have had a broken leg, and the woman might have had some head trauma. She was not conscious at the very beginning. They were waiting for the rescude sled since the woman and her daughter had to be body boarded out.
I rode after that for 80 miles, taking each turn very carefully. I figured it would be a high traffic weekend, probably the best of the year.
People need to remember to get home safe first. Don’t speed, don’t try to be a hot dog, don’t cut or go wide on corners. Just make sure you will go home safe. That’s the bottom line.
On behalf of all snowmobilers, THANK YOU for helping those folks. Hope you were still able to enjoy the rest of your ride.
The conditions were perfect today and I'm sure there will be other stories of close calls and accidents. The trails were busy, even in Colchester. I can't imagine what it was like in the "hot" spots.
All we can do is drive safe, stay on our side and pray the other guy does the same.
Thanks again.
Was just after the junction after Mathewson Hill Rd heading towards Lyndoville. I forget the CA number.
Hey Madcat
Welcome to what we call the saving lives club.
Hope the rest of your day was uneventful.
1 more day of work then to the NEK for a week.
Welcome to what we call the saving lives club.
Hope the rest of your day was uneventful.
1 more day of work then to the NEK for a week.
QUOTE(1madcat @ Feb 16 2008, 07:16 PM)
So I started out this morning intending on riding with a few of my friends, that changed with one pull of the pull cord. Snap. A few hours later I decided to head out for a quick ride. I headed towards Lyndonville on 52. I come around a corner, and there they are. People, sleds, parts in the trail. I don't think I've come across something like this in 9 years of riding. I jump off and see what's going on. A woman tells me someone took off to try and get cell signal to call for help. 2 sleds had collided.
I walk up there and get that sinking feeling in my stomach when I see an older woman on the ground not moving too much and a young girl on the ground sobbing. I have a good cell phone so I call 911. I meet the troopers and the EMTs on the road about 1/2 mile in the trail. They give me one of their first aid bags and I run it up to the scene. Then I zip back and pickup the EMT and run him up to the scene. After that a bunch more people got some more EMTs and a few (what I think to be) firemen/EMTs come on their own sleds. These are all the Lyndon Rescue and Wheelock Sheffield folks. What an F'n crew of people. Hats off to them.
Anyway, I got the story from the guy involved in the accident. They met at a curve where there is a little jog into the trail due to a tree. They slammed on the side and the woman and her daughter were ejected from the sled. The guy said the girl passenger flew off and hit him cross body breaking his helmet.
Basically everyone was conscious when I left. They thought the guy either had bruised or broken ribs, he was having trouble breathing. The young girl might have had a broken leg, and the woman might have had some head trauma. She was not conscious at the very beginning. They were waiting for the rescude sled since the woman and her daughter had to be body boarded out.
I rode after that for 80 miles, taking each turn very carefully. I figured it would be a high traffic weekend, probably the best of the year.
People need to remember to get home safe first. Don’t speed, don’t try to be a hot dog, don’t cut or go wide on corners. Just make sure you will go home safe. That’s the bottom line.
I walk up there and get that sinking feeling in my stomach when I see an older woman on the ground not moving too much and a young girl on the ground sobbing. I have a good cell phone so I call 911. I meet the troopers and the EMTs on the road about 1/2 mile in the trail. They give me one of their first aid bags and I run it up to the scene. Then I zip back and pickup the EMT and run him up to the scene. After that a bunch more people got some more EMTs and a few (what I think to be) firemen/EMTs come on their own sleds. These are all the Lyndon Rescue and Wheelock Sheffield folks. What an F'n crew of people. Hats off to them.
Anyway, I got the story from the guy involved in the accident. They met at a curve where there is a little jog into the trail due to a tree. They slammed on the side and the woman and her daughter were ejected from the sled. The guy said the girl passenger flew off and hit him cross body breaking his helmet.
Basically everyone was conscious when I left. They thought the guy either had bruised or broken ribs, he was having trouble breathing. The young girl might have had a broken leg, and the woman might have had some head trauma. She was not conscious at the very beginning. They were waiting for the rescude sled since the woman and her daughter had to be body boarded out.
I rode after that for 80 miles, taking each turn very carefully. I figured it would be a high traffic weekend, probably the best of the year.
People need to remember to get home safe first. Don’t speed, don’t try to be a hot dog, don’t cut or go wide on corners. Just make sure you will go home safe. That’s the bottom line.
I hope they are ok keep us posted please
I hope all are okay and recovering! -Gil
thanks for helping and reminding us all that this sport is supposed to be fun. Slow down, stay right, and enjoy what mother nature has to offer. The more accidents that happen the more likely the sport will suffer.
QUOTE(tirolskier @ Feb 17 2008, 09:41 AM)
thanks for helping and reminding us all that this sport is supposed to be fun. Slow down, stay right, and enjoy what mother nature has to offer. The more accidents that happen the more likely the sport will suffer.
All of our thoughts are with the people involved , we must remember that this sport is a family sport and with school vacations going on that the trails might be filled with alot of younger riders and also fearless riders that think nothing can happen to them
madcat, your stopping and helping those people by bringing in equipment and rescue personnel is highly commendable. I am a 25 year firefighter veteran and we don't often get help from the general public, but sledders help other sledders, that is the way it has always been. Thanks for what you did.
I heard that there were actually two accidents at about the same time. One was near the junction of Rt. 52 by the resevior on pudding hill (near airport). Someone rode to my mother-in-laws farm house and called 911. It took tem a while for the EMT's to get there because they were at another accident near Sutton or Shefield (I believe on Rt. 52). Don't no which accident this was, but it is lucky that no one was seriously hurt.
Looks like everyone is ok...
From the Burlington Free Press
Three snowmobilers hurt in collision in Lyndonville
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008
LYNDONVILLE -- Three people were injured in a collision between two snowmobiles on a trail in Lyndonville Saturday, said Vermont State Police.
Donald Barrett, 53, of Manorville, N.Y. told police he was traveling southwest on Trail #52 when he rounded a curve and collided head-on with a machine driven by Diane Corneau, 42, of Prospect, Conn.
Police said Corneau blacked out for about five minutes after the collision. Corneau's passenger, Sydney Corneau, 11, received bumps and bruises after coming off the back of the sled and hitting Barrett in the chest and helmet.
All three riders, who were wearing their helmets, were transported to Northeastern Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury with various injuries.
From the Burlington Free Press
Three snowmobilers hurt in collision in Lyndonville
Published: Monday, February 18, 2008
LYNDONVILLE -- Three people were injured in a collision between two snowmobiles on a trail in Lyndonville Saturday, said Vermont State Police.
Donald Barrett, 53, of Manorville, N.Y. told police he was traveling southwest on Trail #52 when he rounded a curve and collided head-on with a machine driven by Diane Corneau, 42, of Prospect, Conn.
Police said Corneau blacked out for about five minutes after the collision. Corneau's passenger, Sydney Corneau, 11, received bumps and bruises after coming off the back of the sled and hitting Barrett in the chest and helmet.
All three riders, who were wearing their helmets, were transported to Northeastern Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury with various injuries.
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